Muslims claim that forced marriages are against Islam ~ but they cannot deny that selling women into marriage has long been a part of Islam. It is a long standing Western joke that if you go to those regions, as a woman you could end up being sold for some farm animal or camel or something. Muslim girls are being sold into marriage in Germany today, how can Muslim women equate, being sold, with marrying by one's own free will. Surely the sale of women for money or animals, can only be a forced marriage. Which can only mean that Islam supports forced marriage!
In any case the Germans are going after this nonsense!
German teachers are to get guidelines on handling with pupils the issue of forced marriages, the government said Friday after a spate of cases hit the headlines.
"Forced marriage is an infringement of human rights," Maria Boehmer, the government's commissioner for immigration and integration, said.
"Current mechanisms for helping young men and women threatened by forced marriage often come too late or not at all. Schools can play an important role here," she said.
The guidelines aim to give schools and teachers concrete tips for picking up on early warning signs if a pupil is being pushed into a forced marriage, and on talking to parents and alerting child protection services.
With many girls forced into marrying someone chosen by their families too scared to come forward, figures are hard to come by. But support groups estimate that more than 1,000 forced unions happen every year in Germany.
Mostly the girls are Muslims, but not all. Often they are sent back to their parents' countries of origin such as Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Kosovo, Iran and Iraq to marry, and cannot return because they have no German passport.
Last month police reportedly intervened after a 15-year-old from Hamburg called Fatima sent SOS messages via Internet and mobile phone, saying that she was being forced into a marriage by her Serbian family.
She subsequently changed her story and said that she had not been forced to marry, but the episode made the news and turned the spotlight on the issue of forced marriage among Germany's large immigrant community.
Shortly afterwards it emerged that a 14-year-old Kurdish girl had been "sold" by her family for 15,500 euros (18,775 dollars) into a forced marriage. The girl is now pregnant and living with her parents again, reports said.
Chancellor Angela Merkel's government is also responding with a bill banning the practice and imposing prison sentences for offenders that it hopes will be approved by lawmakers later this year.
Islam in Europe: Germany: Teachers to get guidelines on forced marriageGerman teachers to get guidelines on forced marriage < German news | Expatica Germany
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